feed icon rss

Your email was sent successfully. Check your inbox.

An error occurred while sending the email. Please try again.

Proceed reservation?

Export
Filter
  • E-Resource  (14)
  • Charité  (14)
  • HEROLD
  • Stiftung FVV
  • SB Bad Liebenwerda
  • GB Letschin
  • 1
    E-Resource
    E-Resource
    Paris :OECD Publishing,
    UID:
    almafu_9959654159302883
    Format: 1 online resource (45 p. )
    Series Statement: OECD Trade Policy Papers, no.150
    Content: Understanding trade costs is essential for formulating policy interventions designed to reduce such costs. This report synthesises all OECD work on cost factors across the entire trade chain. These factors can be located behind the border, such as non-tariff regulatory measures, market access restrictions, trade finance availability and costs and general impediments on doing business; crossing the border, such as documentation and customs compliance requirements, lengthy administrative procedures and other delays; and in all stages of the international trade chain, such as transport infrastructure and logistics. The report proposes a series of questions to help identify priority areas, taking into account country specificities. The strong interdependencies between cost factors, magnified by the prevalence of global value chains, mean that policies to address costs and facilitate trade need to be undertaken in a comprehensive manner, although the cost-benefit ratio of certain trade facilitation reforms, particularly at the border, may offer immediate and significant benefits.
    Language: English
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 2
    UID:
    almafu_9959653940802883
    Format: 1 online resource (50 p. )
    Series Statement: OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, no.2015/04
    Content: Most of the projections of the cost of meeting climate change mitigation targets hinge crucially upon assumptions made about the cost and timing of the development of breakthrough technologies. However, very little is known about the conditions which are likely to give rise to breakthrough technologies. This paper seeks to uncover attributes of inventions – as reflected in patent data – which serve as “leading indicators” of subsequent technological and market development in climate change mitigation technologies. The role of industrial generality emerges as being robustly correlated with subsequent technological diffusion, whether measured as subsequent patent counts, commercial applicability, or attractiveness to risk finance. The indicator of closeness to science shows also a positive association with later technological diffusion. Originality and radicalness have more ambiguous results. This work can be seen as a foundation for the future development of a methodology providing guidance to policymakers in the choices made with respect to public support for different technological fields.
    Language: English
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 3
    UID:
    almafu_9958084137202883
    Format: 1 online resource (49 p. )
    Series Statement: OECD Education Working Papers, no.11
    Content: This study, part of OECD/CERI's project on Measuring the Social Outcomes of Learning, investigates the relationship between educational attainment and political participation in Austria. First, a model based on various theoretical considerations is introduced. This incorporates direct educational effects as well as indirect effects that occur through material resources, social capital, civic orientations and values. Using a multivariate analytical approach the model is applied to the 2002 European Social Survey. Three forms of political participation are distinguished, namely voting, elite-directed and elite-challenging activities. Educational attainment is found to have significant effects on all three types but the strongest impact is on elite-challenging activities. The latter includes forms of political action such as signing petitions and buying or boycotting certain products which are increasingly accepted as a legitimate way to express one's political preferences. Most of the effects of education arise through intermediate variables, including social capital (especially affiliation with non-political organisations), civic orientations (political interest as well as internal and external efficacy) and individual (postmaterialist) values. The effect of education on elite-directed activity operated primarily through organisational affiliation, as well as internal and external efficacy. In contrast, the effect of education on elite-challenging activity seems to be fostered via social environments that combine high levels of political interest, interpersonal trust, postmaterialist values and a certain degree of scepticism against political institutions. The paper concludes with suggestions for policy and research.
    Language: English
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 4
    UID:
    almafu_9959653983102883
    Format: 1 online resource (41 p. )
    Series Statement: OECD Education Working Papers, no.104
    Content: This case study examines the consequences of important education decentralisation reforms that took place in Sweden in the early 1990s. The sudden shift away from a traditionally centralised education system towards a decentralised one meant that municipalities had to quickly accommodate new responsibilities. Difficulties related to this shift were noticed early on and then confirmed by international surveys, in particular PISA, which revealed that student performance was deteriorating while the gap increased between and top- and bottom-performers. Key elements to this include the fact that decentralisation took place without enough support from the central authorities, municipalities (particularly smaller ones) lacked local capacity to manage their new responsibilities, and as a result the reform has resulted in a mismatch between official responsibilities and the actual powers of the various stakeholders. The central government, steering education at arm’s length, has few tools to incentivise compliance with national goals. At the municipal level, financial resources are often allocated based on tradition and local politics rather than actual needs. This is in part due to misuse of available data and of expert knowledge by decision-makers. The case study also provides a series of recommendations for improvement.
    Language: English
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 5
    UID:
    almafu_9959654052402883
    Format: 1 online resource (37 p. )
    Series Statement: OECD Statistics Working Papers, no.2016/03
    Content: We build an indicator of individual subjective well-being in the United States based on Google Trends. The indicator is a combination of keyword groups that are endogenously identified to fit with the weekly time-series of subjective well-being measures disseminated by Gallup Analytics. We find that keywords associated with job search, financial security, family life and leisure are the strongest predictors of the variations in subjective well-being. The model successfully predicts the out-of-sample evolution of most subjective well-being measures at a one-year horizon.
    Language: English
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 6
    UID:
    almafu_9958073064502883
    Format: 1 online resource (49 p. )
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.344
    Content: The substantial decline in private-sector saving rates observed in several OECD countries in the late 1990s coincided in several cases with a sharp increase in household financial net worth. This was seen by many observers as evidence that the strong rise in equity and residential property prices during the late 1990s had been treated by households as a permanent increase in wealth, leading to an unsustainable drop in saving and raising fears of an eventual negative wealth effect. Applying estimation techniques for systems of dynamic panel equations, this paper looks at basic determinants of private saving for a sample of 15 OECD countries and finds that the sharp decline in saving observed after 1995 can be largely explained, even in a post-sample fashion, by fundamentals other than financial wealth. Among the determinants, the rise in public-sector saving is found to have contributed the most to the decline in private saving between 1995 and 2000. Based on this ...
    Language: English
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 7
    UID:
    edoccha_9961222627302883
    Format: 1 online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 3-8467-6516-3
    Series Statement: Philologie des Abenteuers 2
    Content: Wer in der Moderne von Abenteuern erzählt, setzt sich dem Verdacht der Trivialität aus. Doch ein stillschweigender Verzicht aufs Abenteuer fällt auch kanonischen Autoren der Moderne schwer. Der Sammelband nimmt diese Beobachtung zum Anlass einer Spurensuche. Er geht dem Verbleib des Abenteuers in literarischen und theoretischen Texten der Moderne nach. Neben klassischen Abenteuerautoren, wie Karl May oder Rider Haggard, stehen Texte von Goethe, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust u.a. im Fokus, welche das Abenteuer in einem Spannungsfeld von Integration und Zurückweisung situieren. Darüber hinaus widmet sich der Band der Bedeutung des Abenteuers im kolonialen Diskurs, in der Psychoanalyse und im Russischen Formalismus.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 3-7705-6516-9
    Language: German
    Keywords: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 8
    UID:
    edoccha_9960140428402883
    Format: 1 online resource (iv-284 p.)
    ISBN: 979-1-03-652949-8
    Content: This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in the context of past and present questions in anthropology, psychology and human evolution. It promotes the perspective of ‘integrated’ social science, in which social science questions are addressed in a deliberately eclectic manner, combining results and models from evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, economics, anthropology and history. It thus constitutes a welcome contribution to a gradually emerging approach to social science based on E. O. Wilson’s concept of ‘consilience’ . Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens spans a wide range of topics, from an examination of ritual behaviour, integrating neuro-science, ethology and anthropology to explain why humans engage in ritual actions (both cultural and individual), to the motivation of conflicts between groups. As such, the collection gives readers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the applications of an evolutionary paradigm in the social sciences. This volume will be a useful resource for scholars and students in the social sciences (particularly psychology, anthropology, evolutionary biology and the political sciences), as well as a general readership interested in the social sciences.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-80064-206-7
    Language: English
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 9
    UID:
    edoccha_9960143992402883
    Format: 1 online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 3-657-73245-4
    Series Statement: Hermeneutik und Interpretationstheorie 1
    Content: "Verstehen" und "Interpretieren" stellen das Basisvokabular von Hermeneutik und Interpretationstheorie dar. Der Band expliziert die beiden Grundbegriffe für sich und in ihrem Zusammenhang.So offensichtlich Verstehen und Interpretieren die Kernbegrifflichkeit der fraglichen Theoriebildungen darstellen, so divers und kontrovers gestaltet sich in concreto das jeweilige Verstehen des Verstehens bzw. Interpretieren des Interpretierens. Der vorliegende Band lotet aus, was unter diesen Begriffen zu verstehen ist und wie sie sich zueinander verhalten: Bezeichnen sie distinkte Bereiche oder verschiedene Weisen der Bedeutungszuschreibung - und profilieren sich insofern wechselseitig? Sind sie in hierarchischer Weise aufeinander zu beziehen, sei es systematisch, sei es prozedural? Kann allenfalls auf einen der Begriffe verzichtet werden zugunsten des anderen?
    Note: Front Matter -- , Copyright page -- , Vorwort / , Verstehen und Interpretieren / , Verstehen – Objekte, Aufgaben und Hindernisse / , Dimensions of Interpretation / , Die Phänomene des Verstehens und die Praxis des Interpretierens / , Hermeneutica in nuce / , Wahres und vertretbares Verstehen / , Beyond the Normative/Descriptive Divide: Hermeneutics and Narrativity / , Die Wiederkehr des Urteilens / , Besserverstehen / , Faktischer und hypothetischer Intentionalismus / , Back Matter -- , Autorinnen und Autoren.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 3-506-73245-5
    Language: German
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 10
    UID:
    edoccha_9960021670202883
    Format: 1 online resource
    ISBN: 9781003110019
    Series Statement: Routledge research in polar regions
    Note: Introduction: The quest for a good life: Contributions from the Arctic towards a theory of wellbeing / FLORIAN STAMMLER AND REETTA TOIVANEN -- Motives for migrating among youth in Russian Arctic industrial cities / ANNA SIMAKOVA, MARIA PITUKHINA AND AYTALINA IVANOVA -- Not wanting to be “Stuck”: Exploring the role of mobility for young people’s wellbeing in Northern Finland / TERESA KOMU AND RIA-MARIA ADAMS -- Leaving or staying? Youth agency and the livability of industrial towns in the Russian Arctic / ALLA BOLOTOVA -- Towards a sustainable future of the Indigenous youth: Arctic negotiations on (im)mobility / REETTA TOIVANEN -- Youths’ and their guardians’ prospects of reindeer husbandry in Finland / TANJA JOONA AND PIGGA KESKITALO -- Indigenous youth perspectives on extractivism and living in a good way in the Yukon / SUSANNA GARTLER WITH TAIYA MELANCON AND EILEEN PETER -- Youth law, policies and their implementation in the Russian Arctic / AYTALINA IVANOVA, TATYANA OGLEZNEVA AND FLORIAN STAMMLER -- The quest for independent living in Finland: Youth shelter as a critical moment in young adults’ life courses / MIIA LÄHDE AND JENNI MÖLKÄNEN -- Planning for the future: Future orientation, agency and self-efficacy of young adults leaving care in the Russian Arctic / MERI KULMALA AND ANNA FOMINA -- Youth wellbeing in “Atomic Towns”: The cases of Polyarnye Zori and Pyhäjoki / RIA-MARIA ADAMS, LUKAS ALLEMANN AND VELI-PEKKA TYNKKYNEN.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-367-62630-6
    Language: English
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
Close ⊗
This website uses cookies and the analysis tool Matomo. Further information can be found on the KOBV privacy pages